Table of Contents (page 5) List of Plates (page 9) Acknowledgments (page 11) Introduction (page 13) Background (page 13) What is a Colophon (page 14) Names (page 15) Places (page 18) A Few Testimonies (page 20) Part 1: Ginza Matters (page 25) 1 The Ginza and Its Contents (page 27) 2 The Colophons In Four Paris Ginzas (page 35) Ms. A (page 36) Ms. B (page 46) Ms. C (page 48) Ms. D (page 52) Concluding Remarks (page 56) GR Colophon 1, Paris Ginza Ms. A (page 57) GL Colophon, Paris Ginza Ms. A (page 59) 3 Seven Other Ginzas (page 63) Introductory Remarks (page 63) DC 22 (page 64) Two Ginzas in California (page 72) The Ginza in Flushing, New York (page 77) The Ginza in Lake Grove, New York (page 82) The Australian Ginza (page 84) Hunt. 6 (page 90) 4 Mandaic Adventures in the British Library (page 103) Introduction (page 103) The First Ginza (page 105) The Second Ginza (page 106) The Third Ginza (page 108) The Scrapbook (page 110) Part 2: Priests and Scholars (page 115) 5 Lady Drower and Sheikh Negm (page 117) Lady Drower''s Relationship With Sheikh Negm (page 118) Sheikh Negm (page 127) 6 Visiting the Natives: Heinrich Petermann in Suq E-uyuk,1854 (page 133) 7 the Life of Yahia Bihram (page 145) Dc 35: Mabuta of Hibil Ziwa (page 146) Dc 24 : --arh D-parwanaiia and Dc 47 : a Phylactery for Rue (page 152) Other Texts (page 156) 8 Women Priests (page 161) Introductory Remarks (page 161) Women''s Names in Cp 170, in Cp Colophons, in Other Liturgies, and in JB (page 163) Women in the Ginza Colophons (page 170) Other Sources (page 175) Part 3: More Texts (page 181) 9 Liturgy Colophons (page 183) Beginnings (page 183) The Canonical Prayerbook (page 185) DC 3, Ms.

Syr. E 15, and Other Small Collections of Prayers (page 194) Appendix A: CP Colophon 1 (to CP 1.74) (page 197) Appendix B: CP Colophon 2 (to CP 75.77) (page 201) 10 CP 170: Good is the Good for the Goodz (page 205) Abahatan in the Canonical Prayerbook (page 206) The Evidence from Mabuta D-hibil Ziwa (page 213) De Morgan''s ''Niania Version (page 213) Sarh D-?abahata: DC 42 (page 215) The British Library Ginza Add. 23,601 (page 216) Concluding Remarks (page 217) Correlation of the Ethnarch Lists in Cp 170 and Mhz (page 219) 11 The Book of John (page 221) Preliminary Remarks (page 221) About the Colophons (page 222) Paris Ms. B and DC 30 (page 223) Paris Ms. A and Hunt. 71 (page 225) Three Copies of the Book of John in America (page 229) Concluding Remarks (page 238) Appendix (page 240) 12 Tracking the Obscure Centuries: between 1450 and 700 (page 243) The Tarik in DC 12 (page 244) CP''s Colophon 4 and Marsh.

691 (page 247) Zihrun Raza Kasia, Alma Riaia Rba, and Alma Riaia Zuta (page 250) Alf Trisar --uialia (page 255) Concluding Remarks (page 262) Part 4: Discerning History (page 265) 13 Comparing the Earliest Colophons (page 267) Initial Remarks (page 267) Canonical Prayerbook (page 270) Left Ginza (page 272) Alf Trisar --uialia (page 273) Diwan Malkuta ''Laita (page 275) Alma Riaia Rba and Alma Riaia Zuta (page 276) Zihrun Raza Kasia (page 277) --arh D-qabin (page 278) Mabuta D-hibil Ziwa (page 279) Marsh. 691 (page 280) Ms. Asiat. Misc. C 12 (Dmut Ku?a) (page 282) 14 On the Age of Mandaean Traditions and Texts (page 287) Kurt Rudolph (page 287) Rudolf Macuch (page 294) Others (page 297) Conclusions (page 300) 15 Matters of History (page 303) Haran Gawaita and Ardban (page 303) Edmondo Lupieri (page 313) A Christian Connection (page 316) A Jewish Christian Possibility (page 320) Possible Scenarios (page 324) Afterword (page 327) Memory (page 327) Plates (page 331) Appendix A (page 343) Appendix B (page 345) Appendix C (page 347) Abbreviations and Editions (page 359) Glossary (page 361) Bibliography (page 363) Index of Priests (page 373) Index of Authors (page 381).